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- 2627 - FULL SHOW: Country Life for 8 November 2024
This week we chat to a veterinarian at Wellington Zoo's animal hospital, Te Kōhanga, we visit a peony farm in full bloom, and we hear from scientists about the pros and cons of nitrogen.
Fri, 08 Nov 2024 - 49min - 2626 - All creatures great and small: The zoo hospital helping native wildlife
We take you inside Wellington Zoo's animal hospital, Te Kōhanga, where they help rehabilitate native birds ready to be released back into the wild.
Fri, 08 Nov 2024 - 17min - 2625 - Nitrogen: Friend or Foe?
Scientists look at the details underpinning nitrogen and its use in agriculture, horticulture and its impacts on the environment.
Fri, 08 Nov 2024 - 14min - 2624 - Business is blooming at family focused peony farmFri, 08 Nov 2024 - 07min
- 2623 - Rural News Wrap for 8 November 2024Fri, 08 Nov 2024 - 08min
- 2622 - FULL SHOW: Country Life for 1 November 2024
We chat to a rural vet, visit a farm where horticulture is helping addicts recover and find out about a novel plan to capture greenhouse gases for feeding farm animals.
Fri, 01 Nov 2024 - 50min - 2621 - Capturing greenhouse gases for farm feed
In a Rotorua lab scientists are cooking up plans to create stockfeed out of captured greenhouse gases from geothermal power stations.
Fri, 01 Nov 2024 - 12min - 2620 - From the Archive: Growing plants helps addicts' recovery
Country Life visited Nova Trust's farm near Christchurch where the charity is helping rehabilitate addicts through horticulture.
Fri, 01 Nov 2024 - 23min - 2619 - Rory Dean - a rural vet inspired to write
Rory Dean, graduated as a vet from Edinburgh University in 2015, and has already filled a book - Adventures of a Country Vet - full of adventures and experiences as a rural vet in his native UK and now New Zealand.
Fri, 01 Nov 2024 - 06min - 2618 - On The Farm for 1 November 2024
Kiwifruit is starting to bloom in Bay of Plenty, dairy farmers up and down the country are busy breeding the next season's calves, while North Canterbury farms have welcomed some recent rain to break the dry.
Fri, 01 Nov 2024 - 06min - 2617 - FULL SHOW: Country Life for 25 October 2024
We catch up with a dairy farmer embracing regenerative farming, a flower farmer juggling a young family and visit a farm classroom connecting schoolchildren to the environment.
Fri, 25 Oct 2024 - 50min - 2616 - Getting cosy and creative under canvas
Schoolchildren are learning in a bell tent on a riverside farm in South Wairarapa. They're taking part in a project connecting the community to the river and moana.
Fri, 25 Oct 2024 - 17min - 2615 - The not so glamorous life of flower farming
Kate Briant, of The Rural Florist, on how growing flowers helps her juggle a busy young family while keeping her close to her roots in horticulture.
Fri, 25 Oct 2024 - 12min - 2614 - Healthy cows and soils put spring in farmers step
The last time Country Life visited John Legg's Leeston dairy farm, he was adopting regenerative practices across the property. We catch up with him again five years later.
Fri, 25 Oct 2024 - 13min - 2613 - Rural News Wrap for 25 October 2024Fri, 25 Oct 2024 - 05min
- 2612 - FULL SHOW: Country Life for 18 October 2024
We meet a keen gardener in the Far North, hop in the sheepyards to learn about dagging and talk emissions with a sheep and beef farmer in Wairoa. And later we take a look back in the archives with a rural postman on his rounds.
Fri, 18 Oct 2024 - 49min - 2611 - From the Archive: A day in the life of a rural postie
In a trip to the archives we join rural delivery man Doug Wilson on his 100-kilometre daily run around the big stations around Taihape, from a feature produced in 1985 by the team from long-running RNZ show Spectrum.
Fri, 18 Oct 2024 - 19min - 2610 - Shifting times for sheep in Wairoa
A changing climate and shifting land use has prompted Wairoa sheep and beef farmer Dave Read to develop a new breed of low-input sheep.
Fri, 18 Oct 2024 - 09min - 2609 - Farming 101: What's a dag?
In this first episode of Farming 101, we check in with sheep grazier Peter Crook to find out about dagging.
Fri, 18 Oct 2024 - 06min - 2608 - A garden in Moerewa
If you're heading to the Far North via State Highway 1, you might spy Daphne Andrell busy at work in her garden.
Fri, 18 Oct 2024 - 04min - 2607 - Rural News Wrap for 18 October 2024Fri, 18 Oct 2024 - 07min
- 2606 - FULL SHOW: Country Life for 11 October 2024
We join Girls who Grow helping bridge the urban-rural divide for young women and meet two Canterbury hunters supplying local food banks with wild venison mince.
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 - 49min - 2605 - The next generation of land girls
Girls who Grow: The new education programme helping empower the next generation of wāhine in agriculture.
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 - 20min - 2604 - Hunters supply foodbanks with tonnes of wild venison mince
Hunters for Hope's Steve Hill and Adam Kreisel turn surplus venison from hunters and farmers into high-protein food parcels for low-income families.
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 - 20min - 2603 - Rural News Wrap for 11 October 2024Fri, 11 Oct 2024 - 06min
- 2602 - FULL SHOW: Country Life for 4 October 2024
This week Country Life checks in on Miley the sheepdog in training and joins Katikati College students learning more about a future in horticulture.
Fri, 04 Oct 2024 - 50min - 2601 - Dig This - Grow Hub ignites teens' interest in horticulture
Teens in the heart of kiwifruit country are being trained up for a career in horticulture through the Grow Hub at Katikati College.
Fri, 04 Oct 2024 - 17min - 2600 - From pup to pro: Miley's diva days
We check back in with Miley the Huntaway pup and her trainer Chris Shaw to see what progress she's made over the last few months.
Fri, 04 Oct 2024 - 12min - 2599 - On the Farm for 4 October 2024Fri, 04 Oct 2024 - 08min
- 2598 - Whale watching while picking winter grown greens
Ocean views makes harvesting of iceberg lettuce and broccoli a lot more pleasant for Ben Scott and staff at his winter grown vegetables farm in North Canterbury.
Fri, 04 Oct 2024 - 09min - 2597 - FULL SHOW: Country Life for 27 September 2024
This week we're between the rows at 144 Islands vineyard in Northland and on the Hurunui River where off-the-beaten track tourism is helping sustain a sheep farming family.
Fri, 27 Sep 2024 - 50min - 2596 - Off the beaten track tourism sustains two generations of sheep farmers
Dome glamping, farm tours and jetting up the Hurunui River supplements income and highlights cultural heritage at a traditional sheep and beef farm in North Canterbury.
Fri, 27 Sep 2024 - 19min - 2595 - 144 Islands - A Northland vineyard inspired by vines from days gone by
Old grape vines clambering over a tumbledown shed inspired Jake Dromgool's wine-growing venture 144 Islands. He grows an array of varieties on the volcanic soils outside Kerikeri.
Fri, 27 Sep 2024 - 16min - 2594 - From steering tractors to the helm of Leaderbrand
Richard Burke, chief of Leaderbrand, one of New Zealand's biggest horticulture groups, is returning the reins to the family which founded the firm 50 years ago.
Fri, 27 Sep 2024 - 06min - 2593 - Rural News Wrap for 27 September 2024Fri, 27 Sep 2024 - 06min
- 2592 - FULL SHOW: Country Life for 20 September 2024
We meet a mother and daughter growing microgreens and head to a North Canterbury dairy farm using crops to mop up nasties which could end up in waterways.
Fri, 20 Sep 2024 - 50min - 2591 - From selling shoes in China to sprouting microgreens in Te Puke
Kali sold shoes in China before coming to NZ. She discovered her green fingers just out of Te Puke where she has joined forces with her daughter to grow microgreens.
Fri, 20 Sep 2024 - 19min - 2590 - Catch crops help prevent nitrogen from leaching into waterways
Trials on a North Canterbury dairy farm have found that early sown oats and Italian ryegrass are taking up excess urine deposited by winter grazing cows.
Fri, 20 Sep 2024 - 13min - 2589 - Kerry Worsnop on a better approach to policy
Nuffield scholar and former Gisborne District Councillor Kerry Worsnop on how policymakers can better work with those on the land.
Fri, 20 Sep 2024 - 09min - 2588 - Rural News Wrap for 20 September 2024Fri, 20 Sep 2024 - 06min
- 2587 - FULL SHOW: Country Life for 13 September 2024
Hear from an expert on China's consumer market, meet a former dairy high-flyer now farming a very different sort of protein and learn more about a niche rural business using deer antlers.
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 - 50min - 2586 - A cut above: Couple making 'one of a kind' knives
Jacinda and Richy Sheridan have carved out a niche for themselves, making hunting and farm knives using deer antlers.
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 - 20min - 2585 - Milk high fliers move into hops and plant proteins
Meet a farmer who has developed a food supplement based on a protein extracted from green leaves and established North Canterbury's first commercial hop gardens.
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 - 13min - 2584 - The inside skinny on China's consumers from Mark Tanner
Mark Tanner knows what people in China are consuming. He's the founder of China Skinny, a market research company based in Shanghai.
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 - 14min - 2583 - Rural News Wrap for 13 September 2024Fri, 13 Sep 2024 - 05min
- 2582 - Country Life for Friday 16 February 2024
Ancestors roots run deep at Wairau Pā vineyard, Farming to the beat of his own drum, Farmers from around the world: Jana Gäbert, dairy farmer from Germany and the Rural News Wrap.
Fri, 16 Feb 2024 - 50min - 2581 - Ancestors roots run deep at Wairau Pā vineyard
Haysley MacDonald was born and bred on the family farm near Marlborough's Wairau Bar, or Te Pokohiwi. The coastal land, that overlooks Cloudy Bay, is where his ancestors first landed over 800 years ago, and have lived there ever since those early migrations.
Fri, 16 Feb 2024 - 20min - 2580 - Rural News Wrap
A round-up of the week's agricultural news with RNZ rural news reporter Sally Murphy. This week marked a year since Cyclone Gabrielle tore through the East Coast of the North Island, causing wide spread damage to farms and orchards.
Fri, 16 Feb 2024 - 07min - 2579 - Farming to the beat of his own drum
Former Wellington Percussionist, Jeremy Fitzsimons, is now based on the family farm in the Kauaeranga Valley near Thames. Bryan Crump paid him a visit.
Fri, 16 Feb 2024 - 13min - 2578 - Farmers from around the world, Jana Gäbert
Jana Gabert runs a dairy farm about 30 kilometres south of Berlin. She is among farmers around Europe who have taken to the streets in protest about increasing costs and regulation amid high competition, loss of tax breaks and climate change. Last month she rode in a farm tractor to Berlin's famous Brandenburg Gate to press home farmers' concerns.
Fri, 16 Feb 2024 - 07min - 2577 - Green learning hub grows on red zone land
School students are helping turn quake-damaged red zoned land green again at the Climate Action Campus in Ōtautahi/Christchurch.
Fri, 09 Feb 2024 - 13min - 2576 - A year after Gabrielle, "a little bit of a miracle"
A year ago the Wilson family's apple trees were bowled like nine pins when logs came crashing through stop banks and silt drowned many areas. Did the trees come good?
Fri, 09 Feb 2024 - 07min - 2575 - Rural News WrapFri, 09 Feb 2024 - 08min
- 2574 - Country Life Friday 9 February 2024
Country Life this week - a chat with a Hawkes Bay apple orchardist one year on from Gabrielle, the Climate Action Campus in Christchurch and a polo match under the hot summer sun
Fri, 09 Feb 2024 - 50min - 2573 - More rugged than posh - playing polo the Kiwi way
Summer at a sportsground in Hawkes Bay means the thud of hooves and the knock of mallets under the hot summer sun.
Fri, 09 Feb 2024 - 19min - 2572 - I'm a wee bit addicted to doing farm trials says Waipara farmer
Former ag scientist, Ian Knowles, likes to lead from the front when it comes to sheep and plant trials and comparative experiments on his diverse hill country farm.
Fri, 02 Feb 2024 - 20min - 2571 - Kotare Subtropicals on a mission to reduce banana imports
Geoff Mansell is growing bananas and many other subtropical fruits to supply local supermarkets and he hopes others will do the same.
Fri, 02 Feb 2024 - 16min - 2570 - Banking on seeds for Raglan
People in Raglan have access to a community seed bank so they can plant their own vegetables and ensure local cultivars thrive.
Fri, 02 Feb 2024 - 06min - 2569 - Country Life Friday 2 February 2024
Country Life goes bananas, meets an award-winning Waipara farmer and checks in on Raglan's seed bank.
Fri, 02 Feb 2024 - 51min - 2568 - Rural News WrapFri, 02 Feb 2024 - 07min
- 2567 - FULL SHOW: Country Life 26 January 2024
Country Life checks in on a paddock-to-plate free range egg venture and a Canterbury lamb sale as well as consitions on farms and orchards around Aotearoa.
Fri, 26 Jan 2024 - 50min - 2566 - On the Farm - a wrap of conditions around the country
All stock are doing very well in Waikato and the maize crop is outstanding. In Canterbury grass growth is slow and even farms with irrigation have been battling to keep enough water going on.
Fri, 26 Jan 2024 - 07min - 2565 - Egg farmer cracks the paddock-to-plate market
Scott Jimmieson sold cars to upskill for his paddock-to-plate free range egg business. It was tough-going but good training for understanding his customers. Country Life hops in the delivery van taking eggs to the people.
Fri, 26 Jan 2024 - 20min - 2564 - Summer lamb prices slide down the big dipper
"It's going to be a tough year. Do you want to talk to the bank manager or me?" Sheffield farmer Tom Ferguson tells Cosmo Kentish-Barnes after his on-farm lamb sale.
Fri, 26 Jan 2024 - 13min - 2563 - Nuffield scholar and agricultural journalist Claire Taylor
Are farmers around the world telling their story well enough? Scottish ag journo and Nuffield Scholar Claire Taylor has been visiting New Zealand and spoke to Country Life
Fri, 26 Jan 2024 - 07min - 2562 - Summer Series: Country Life for January 19
Country Life visits Pamu's deer milking operation near Taupo, learns about farming by the Maori lunar calendar - maramataka - and hears about the potential for banana-growing on the West Coast.
Fri, 19 Jan 2024 - 48min - 2561 - Summer Series: Country Life for January 12
Stories from the 2023 archive: Cosmo's at a high country station in the far south, Leah checks in on a toy treasure trove in Te Puke and Sally's off grid with a former Wellington mayor.
Fri, 12 Jan 2024 - 49min - 2560 - Summer Series: Country Life for January 5
Stories from the 2023 archive: Leah meets a Northland olive grower, Cosmo's scratching cows with Loulou the Cow Whisperer and Sally's out hunting for a good cause.
Fri, 05 Jan 2024 - 50min - 2559 - Summer Series: Country Life for December 29
Stories plucked from the 2023 archives: Cosmo's with chooks on a cliff edge, Sally's picking apples and Leah meets a dairy farmer who hails from Japan.
Fri, 29 Dec 2023 - 48min - 2558 - On the Farm - a wrap of conditions on farms around the country
Watermelons are growing well in Pukekohe and potato crops are producing good yields at harvest. In Canterbury, baleage is being made and jersey bulls are being taken out of the dairy herd.
Fri, 22 Dec 2023 - 06min - 2557 - Rural Taranaki turns on the festive charm
The Grinch is surfing through paddocks and cows are driving tractors on the rural roadside of Taranaki...but who won the festive farm art competition?
Fri, 22 Dec 2023 - 04min - 2556 - All the time in the world at Colyton Clocks
Colyton Clocks' Bill Williams reckons he has the largest clock collection in the world. A converted church in the village of Colyton is home to his ticking, chiming, talking timepieces dating from the 1700s.
Fri, 22 Dec 2023 - 17min - 2555 - Country Life for Friday 22 December
"My pop owned a milk run" says farmer who bottles his own milk, All the time in the world, Festive farm art in Taranaki and On the Farm - a wrap of conditions on farms and orchards around the country.
Thu, 21 Dec 2023 - 49min - 2554 - 'My pop owned a milk run' says farmer who bottles his own milk
A rural entrepreneur is pasteurising and bottling A2 milk from his families farm and delivering it to people's doors, just like his grandfather did.
Thu, 21 Dec 2023 - 18min - 2553 - Country Life for 15 December 2023
This week Country Life heads to a chicken trailer in the middle of a paddock which is producing eggs and helping the soil and goes on the trail of the elusive whio at Blue Duck Station.
Fri, 15 Dec 2023 - 50min - 2552 - 'Welcome to the top of the world' at Blue Duck Station
Country Life goes on the trail of the elusive whio at Blue Duck Station while learning about the efforts to conserve the history and preserve biodiversity.
Fri, 15 Dec 2023 - 16min - 2551 - Rural News Wrap
The soggy ground has put East Coast arable farmers behind schedule. Only about half this season's maize crop has been planted. Also, the Big Feed Rural Telethon has raised more than 639-thousand mince and milk meals for food banks round the country.
Fri, 15 Dec 2023 - 05min - 2550 - Still farming, just doing it differently
Country Life meets former dairy farmer Lance Gillespie, who's launching a kiwi style chicken trailer. Pasture-raised egg production fits with his interest in regenerative farming practices and, alongside the trailer business, he runs workshops to help other farmers improve their soil heath.
Fri, 15 Dec 2023 - 16min - 2549 - Dig your own veges: Bring a fork, bucket and gumboots
Cam Booker is hoping a good crowd will turn up on Christmas eve to dig their own spuds and pick peas at his market garden in Sefton.
Fri, 15 Dec 2023 - 09min - 2548 - Pest control creates balance for Northland farmer
When Geoff Crawford started trapping for pests on his farms, he was catching 70 possums a week. Now he's lucky if he gets seven...and the community have jumped on board too.
Fri, 08 Dec 2023 - 13min - 2547 - Country Life for 8 December 2023
This week on Country Life; A dairy programme in Sri Lanka is lifting rural communities out of poverty. Selina Prem Kumar and charity Tearfund set the programme up in 2009 and with help from Kiwi farmers, it's grown from helping eight farmers to five-thousand. Selina's been travelling around Aotearoa thanking the farmers for thier support.
Fri, 08 Dec 2023 - 50min - 2546 - 'I was given a cow and taught how to make a shed'
A dairy programme in Sri Lanka is lifting rural communities out of poverty. Selina Prem Kumar and charity Tearfund set the programme up in 2009 and with support from Kiwi farmers, it's grown from helping eight farmers to five-thousand.
Fri, 08 Dec 2023 - 24min - 2545 - Rural News WrapFri, 08 Dec 2023 - 05min
- 2544 - Yarn on the FarmFri, 08 Dec 2023 - 06min
- 2543 - Finding Frank - a true deer hunting legend
Frank Erceg was victim of New Zealand's first helicopter hunting accident, but now his story, and that of the deer culling industry has come to life through his niece, Louise Maich.
Fri, 01 Dec 2023 - 06min - 2542 - Country Life for Friday 1 December 2023Fri, 01 Dec 2023 - 50min
- 2541 - Working horses adjust to new life off the track
Chanelle Dickie has taken dozens of retired racehorses under her wing. She's part of a rehoming and re-educating programme that cares for standardbreds that have fallen off the pace.
Fri, 01 Dec 2023 - 10min - 2540 - Building a wetland on farm
A wetland at the bottom of a dairy farm in South Wairarapa is reducing most of the nitrates being drained from the paddocks. The project at Kaiwaiwai Dairies is nearly a decade old and one of the owners takes us on a tour.
Fri, 01 Dec 2023 - 17min - 2539 - A show stopper for Christmas cake lovers
Cake convener Christine Beaton has a tip for fruitcake bakers at the New Zealand Agricultural Show, "you don't really cook a Christmas cake, you dry it out."
Fri, 01 Dec 2023 - 07min - 2538 - On the Farm - a wrap of conditions around the country
Changeable weather has prevailed in Pukekohe. Farmers in Otago are busy marking lambs and bulls are going out to the cows
Fri, 01 Dec 2023 - 06min - 2537 - 'It's the most sustainable fibre in the world'
Sheep farming and wool innovation took centre stage at the New Zealand Agricultural Show. The new Wool Zone section showcased the versatility of sheep and educated visitors on the myriad uses for wool.
Fri, 24 Nov 2023 - 22min - 2536 - 'Good to have a family business' says master cutler of Svord
Bryan Baker has been making knives for over 40 years in Waiuku - and now the legacy keeps growing as the next generation comes through.
Fri, 24 Nov 2023 - 13min - 2535 - Country Life for Friday 24 November 2023Fri, 24 Nov 2023 - 51min
- 2534 - Rural News WrapFri, 24 Nov 2023 - 06min
- 2533 - Shout from the rooftops, says farmers' markets rep
Jono Walker, chair of Farmers' Markets New Zealand, is Country Life's guest this week. He's been in Rome mingling with other farmers' market representatives from around the world.
Fri, 24 Nov 2023 - 07min - 2532 - Mangaweka Asparagus - from fire to feast
George and Diana Turney went from tragedy to starting Mangaweka Asparagus three decades ago. After the community came to their aid, they have enjoyed giving back and helping others gain a living from the land.
Fri, 17 Nov 2023 - 21min - 2531 - Rare horses relax at show
Eleven rare equine breeds, including the only black Percheron in the country, are on display in a quiet and sunny corner of the Canterbury A&P Showgrounds.
Fri, 17 Nov 2023 - 07min - 2530 - Country Life for Friday November 17 2023
Country Life is at an asparagus harvest near Mangaweka and meets some of the harvesters from Vanuatu. The team checks out some rare horse breeds at the Canterbury show and meets a Banks Peninsula farming couple.
Fri, 17 Nov 2023 - 50min - 2529 - Rural News WrapFri, 17 Nov 2023 - 06min
- 2528 - Working hard to achieve the rural dream
Pigs, cattle, fruit and honey processing are all part of a sustainable farming business plan for first-time Motukarara farmers, Stacey and Ode Gielen.
Fri, 17 Nov 2023 - 14min
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